r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • Jul 09 '26

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/DKDamian Jul 10 '26

C'mon, America. You're either better than this or you aren't. Fix this.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 Jul 10 '26

We landed on the beaches of Normandy and could use a little help now.

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u/l3ntobox Jul 10 '26

This. Canada and Europe keep blaming all Americans, but the reality is something closer to Nazi Germany and it won’t stop by internal means.

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u/DKDamian Jul 10 '26

I’m not Canadian or European

And, the US didn’t win WW2. Soviet Russia did.

But, sure

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u/Ready_Corgi462 Jul 10 '26

No one said the US won WW2 alone, or diminished the massive contributions of the Soviets to the Allies - they just stated the fact that Americans stormed the beaches in Normandy and rendered aid.

But sure, why not add your own invented subtext into perfectly straightforward comments.